Acute coronary syndromes: 1a-Patients whose care is guided by a documented chest pain assessment pathway
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | Indicator 1a-Patients whose care is guided by a documented chest pain assessment pathway |
| METEOR identifier: | 612072 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
| Description: | Proportion of patients presenting with acute chest pain, or other symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), whose care is guided by a documented chest pain assessment pathway. |
| Rationale: | Adherence to using and documenting the chest pain assessment pathway optimises patient outcomes in the management of ACS (Acute Coronary Syndrome Guidelines Working Group 2006). |
| Indicator set: | Clinical care standard indicators: acute coronary syndromes Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | Both the numerator and the denominator only include cases where Hospital service—care type, code N[N] = 1 Acute care. Both the numerator and the denominator include patients with acute chest pain, or other symptoms suggestive of ACS. Presented as a percentage. |
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| Computation: | (Numerator ÷ denominator) x 100 |
| Numerator: | Number of patients presenting to hospital with acute chest pain, or other symptoms suggestive of ACS, whose care is guided by a documented chest pain assessment pathway. |
| Denominator: | Number of patients presenting to hospital with acute chest pain or other symptoms suggestive of ACS. |
| Comments: | Assessment is still indicated for patients with advance care directives, on a palliative care pathway, subject to discussion with patients, family and carers. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Episode |
| Format: | N[NN] |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
| Reference documents: | Acute Coronary Syndrome Guidelines Working Group 2006. Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes 2006. Medical Journal of Australia 184(8):S1–S30. |